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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:30870 comp.os.386bsd.questions:975 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!marble.uknet.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!sct From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Message-ID: <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 23 Mar 93 22:44:52 GMT References: <C4BowL.DK3@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1ome2o$1lu6@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Mar23.085058.13670@serval.net.wsu.edu> <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: hwr@snert.ka.sub.org's message of 23 Mar 93 12:39:36 GMT hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes: > There is another thing to consider: 386bsd has a stable BSD-FFS and > stable networking, while there are bugs in the Linux efs and in their > networking. Whoah there!!!! To the very best of my knowledge - and filesystems is What I Do on Linux - there are no known bugs in the efs, minix or xiafs file systems. There is a bug in the triple indirection handling of e2fs - fixes to be released soon - but only files >64MB are affected. There are also a couple of enhancements due in the e2fsprogs, too. It is fairly safe to say that efs and minix-fs are bug free now. They have been around a long time (relative to Linux - they are all obviously younger than the BSD ffs). It is too early to say absolutely, definitely, that xiafs and ext2fs are now bug free, but all the signs are that they are stable. For what it is worth, I have been using ext2fs extensively since its first release without any trouble. The networking point is well taken, though. More and more people seem to be reporting that they are now running Linux networking successfully, but there are still a few problems to be ironed out. Although I can't speak from experience on this one, Linux networking seems now to be quite useable. A think that few would argue, however, that BSD probably has the edge on stable multi-user networking - for now. As with all sweeping generalisations about Linux, though, remember that things are changing for the better - *fast*. Cheers, Stephen Tweedie. --- Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>) Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.